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Welcoming our new cohort of MSc students

Last week our new cohort of on-campus MSc students joined us in the Bayes Centre for Welcome Week activities, and it was great to meet them all!

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Students at Welcome Week reception in Bayes Centre.

A review of RSECon24

EPCC's Kara Moraw writes about attending the Eighth Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering.

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Photo shows crowded hall at RSECon.

Edinburgh International Data Facility: open for public data

Operated by EPCC, the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) provides a comprehensive set of data services through a large private cloud service.

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Attending RSECon24 as an early-career research software engineer

The Eighth Annual Research Software Engineering Conference (RSECon24) took place in Newcastle from 3–5 September.

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Photos shows a crowded exhibition hall. Image courtesy RSECon24.

Evaluating random forest classifiers to optimise load balancing of parallel mesh generation

The numerical methods used to simulate fluid flows have received significant attention over the years, such that in many applications the solver itself is no longer the major bottleneck in a design

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Computer-generated image. Shows person on motorbike rendered as on-refined mesh slice.

FAIRness and research software

FAIR-IMPACT is a three-year European project which is working to realise a FAIR European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) of data and services that are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

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Record £10.2m investment to continue improving research software practices

The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) has been awarded a record £10.2 million funding for a new project phase from 2024-2028 to continue its vital work as the first organisation in the world

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EPCC at the International HPC Summer School 2024

In July EPCC staff members Weronika Filinger and Ludovic Capelli, and EPCC PhD students David Kacs, Hovhannes Minasyan and Xingran Ruan attended the International HPC Summer School in Kobe, Ja

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A group photo of attendees of the International HPC Summer School.

New images reveal global pollution trends

The global concentrations of one of the main air pollutants known to affect human health have been graphically illustrated in a new way by a team of scientists.

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Images shows air quality stripes reflecting historic air pollution in Edinburgh, UK.

Enabling science from the Rubin alert stream with Lasair

The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile is now nearing completion and astronomers are looking forward to the start of the ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).

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LSST observatory. Image by M.Hernández H.Stockebrand.jpg